This is Kuy, Tra's mother, sitting and separating the fish her husband caught in Tonle Sap into bundles of a kilo.
In nights whole family and some neighbor gather in Tra's house and watch TV for hours. What's on the TV? Soap melodrama, Karaoke, and young males love watching soccer. Cost of black and white television is about 15USD(a budget which seems to be priority over medicine or school books), and they run it by a battery charged from the generator (there's a house in every village who charges batteries for business) One young man says "Television is good. you can learn about things." what sort of things? "Like news, about government." really? do you ever hear about politician's corruption...? "Yes, corruption, we know about that from newspapers." well, what about the television? do they ever broadcast corruption? "Oh, no. We see the news about politician going to places and giving charity to poor people." maybe they should question what's on the television.
Backyards of Poum Steung are open to the vast rice field which now is in dry season. Every morning they dispatch cows out to this field, wash them, use them as means of transportation, and seek patches of dry grass to feed them. Morning sky is astonishingly beautiful, and it changes it's color every second.
Hanravi(14), Tra's best friend. Like many old children in the village, she is responsible for looking after youngers, amongs many other duties. Whether or not she will be able to receive continuing education after this year, is a harsh question.
Breakfast
This is Kuy, Tra's mother, sitting and separating the fish her husband caught in Tonle Sap into bundles of a kilo.
In nights whole family and some neighbor gather in Tra's house and watch TV for hours. What's on the TV? Soap melodrama, Karaoke, and young males love watching soccer. Cost of black and white television is about 15USD(a budget which seems to be priority over medicine or school books), and they run it by a battery charged from the generator (there's a house in every village who charges batteries for business) One young man says "Television is good. you can learn about things." what sort of things? "Like news, about government." really? do you ever hear about politician's corruption...? "Yes, corruption, we know about that from newspapers." well, what about the television? do they ever broadcast corruption? "Oh, no. We see the news about politician going to places and giving charity to poor people." maybe they should question what's on the television.
Backyards of Poum Steung are open to the vast rice field which now is in dry season. Every morning they dispatch cows out to this field, wash them, use them as means of transportation, and seek patches of dry grass to feed them. Morning sky is astonishingly beautiful, and it changes it's color every second. 
Hanravi(14), Tra's best friend. Like many old children in the village, she is responsible for looking after youngers, amongs many other duties. Whether or not she will be able to receive continuing education after this year, is a harsh question.
Breakfast
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